PMI/Private Medical Insurance

Discovery has acquired the remaining 25% stake in the holding company which owns PruHealth and PruProtect, Prudential Health Holdings.

Private medical adviser and consolidator Chase Templeton has revealed it is the new sponsor of its local club Blackburn Rovers FC's medical team.

Spire Healthcare Group and Bupa UK have announced a renewed long-term agreement for six years from April 2015.

Nurses are concerned about their ability to deliver care to dying patients with 10.5% feeling able to always deliver the right level of care to patients.

The CQC has begun its first inspections of private hospitals, with two underway and a further six due for inspection this year.

The introduction of auto-enrolment is being used by companies to review their employee benefits package or introduce new benefits, a survey has found.

Hospital patients would be willing to travel up to 100 miles to ensure they could attend a hospital with a better infection record.

Patients diagnosed with cancer are sometimes keeping their diagnosis from their families, research from Bupa has found.

Jelf Employee benefits has launched a new auto-enrolment package which includes healthcare and group risk.

WPA has launched a multi-family private medical insurance (PMI) plan enabling policyholders to cover extended family members which may be particularly attractive to baby-boomers financially helping out their children and grandchildren.